Furs: Sales

(asked on 2nd March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of how much domestic sales of fur contributed to the UK economy in 2019-20.


Answered by
Victoria Prentis Portrait
Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 10th March 2021

HMRC data for 2019 indicates approximate values of £52,911,000 gross imports, £32,713,000 gross exports, and £20,198,000 net imports. This covers raw furskins, tanned or dressed furskins, and articles of apparel, clothing accessories and other furskin articles.

2019

4301 Raw furskins

Imports

Value (£)

£962,216

4301 Raw furskins

Exports

Value (£)

£536,654

4301 Raw furskins

Net Imports

Value (£)

£425,562

4302 Tanned or dressed furskins

Imports

Value (£)

£7,773,470

4302 Tanned or dressed furskins

Exports

Value (£)

£7,012,555

4302 Tanned or dressed furskins

Net Imports

Value (£)

£760,915

4303 Articles of apparel, clothing accessories and other furskin articles

Imports

Value (£)

£44,174,922

4303 Articles of apparel, clothing accessories and other furskin articles

Exports

Value (£)

£25,163,877

4303 Articles of apparel, clothing accessories and other furskin articles

Net Imports

Value (£)

£19,011,045

TOTALS

Imports

Value (£)

£52,910,608

TOTALS

Exports

Value (£)

£32,713,086

TOTALS

Net Imports

Value (£)

£20,197,522

Sourced from https://www.uktradeinfo.com/trade-data/ots-custom-table/

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